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The Nature of Politics
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The Nature of Politics

State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana
BookHardcover
EUR89,00

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With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation's political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-89680-333-6
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publishing date16/04/2024
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 216 mm
Article no.29348662
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A48431178
Product groupBU676
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Author

Annette A. LaRocco is an associate professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. Her work has appeared in Politics and Gender, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and other outlets. LaRocco was a 2022-23 US Fulbright Scholar conducting research in Botswana and Zimbabwe through the Africa Regional Research Program.

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